The Joint Committee on Human Rights, which is scrutinising the Policing and Crime Bill, found that the government is looking at ways of using civil injunctions against children instead of gang injunctions, which it does not believe are enforceable against children.
Gang injunctions, which would be introduced by the bill as part of a standard way of dealing with gangs, could prevent a person entering a specific area, associating with gang members, using or threatening violence or wearing gang-associated clothing.
Civil injunctions were piloted in Birmingham last year because county courts did not require the same level of proof to issue one as a magistrate's court would to issue an Antisocial Behaviour Order (Asbo).
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